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Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » South Carolina goes as expected – an overwhelming victory f
Interesting typo (I assume) in this Beeb report: "The counter-protests had been underway for hours before around six KKK members arrived, witnesses reported. The Klan members held signs that read "White Live Matter" and carried Confederate flags." Well, it's one way to describe KKK members, I guess. White live matter......… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The Tory race is crowded but there is value there
> @JosiasJessop said: > > @JosiasJessop said: > > > And this is why HS2 is in trouble. > > > > > > Ten years of time and billions spent and nothing to show but arrogance and delays. > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm sorry if this is a bit inconvenient but HS2 has failed to get 'buy-in' - its had the… -
Re: What should the West do? the UK view of a range of suggestions – YouGov – politicalbetting.com
Well, am back in A&E following a 111 call. A daft thing really but tiresome - a thumb infection which has lasted a week and is now getting worse and painful. I'll spare you the gory details. 3rd time in 2 years my immune system has been unable to fight off a small infection. Not ideal. The wait is estimated to be 5 hours… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Privileged lives matter: the British opponents of cancel cultu
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Starmer tells Boris to “get a grip” as they prepare for the fi
Buried in the article: "a small fire had been set in its basement during demonstrations over the weekend." In fact, not only had a fire been set that required a police escort to enable the firemen to put it out, but the flag outside the church had been torn down and burned, glass smashed in the windows, and anti-Trump… -
Re: New betting market – A CON vote lead before Jan 31st? – politicalbetting.com
Hmmm. This is incredibly thin. The so-called "Conservative Peer" - Viscount Gage - has not been a member of the House of Lords for more than 20 years. Far from the work being done "for him, on his estate", afaics it is being done on an access road to an independent museum who made the application. I don't think stooping… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Emily Thornberry lures Sir Michael Fallon into possibly the gr
I've been hinting as much myself, Twin Tower, over the past 48 hours, well at least as far as Labour possible upside is concerned, not so sure about the other parties. Unlike Yours Truly, Nick Palmer has probably wisely been cautioning against placing spread bets for now ..... the danger is of course that if one delays too… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » A Tale of Two Lawyers
Not only is it a total volte face but, if the reports I've just been catching up on are anything like accurate, the revised advice is impossible to comply with. Medical grade masks for everybody over 60 (in the UK that's around 15 million people) and some three layered thing that can allegedly be made at home (if you just… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Starmer formally launches his campaign and moves to a 73% chan
We don't know, of course. But you can't game the fundamentals. There'd likely have been higher immigration first, as the economy boomed up to 2007, and then the 2008-2009 Great Recession would have hit us far harder and, without a UK currency to take the blow, been followed by far higher unemployment post 2009 and a nasty… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Labour cannot go into GE2015 with Balls still shadow chance
@Alanbrooke "Rogerissimo, please don't bore us with trivia from the land of politics, regale us with what's new in Adland or how your 70s DJ pals are getting on with the Met." You're just trying to get me banned. However noting your penchant for high flyers I note that my recent neighbour on Old Compton Street Robert Chote… -
Re: A problem about enforcement remains Johnson’s failure to do anything about the Cummings lockdown bre
Indeed, left liberals blame the voting system but they all know the Presidency has been decided by the electoral college not the popular vote since the US was created. No point doing a Hillary and fundraising in California when you need to win Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. They then blame too many judges being… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Two CON losses – one to LAB the other to the SNP in latest
There was a bloke (Chatham House?) on the radio the other day who said that in actual fact "moderate" rebels are in short supply and hard to find thus (holds nose) supporting your point. His point being that whichever rebels you bombed the s**t out of it was probably ok, western-liberal-democracy-wise. The Americans need… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The budget spread bets – how many times will key words be ment
My guess is that they are thinking about what might happen if they can't get the Withdrawal agreement through the House. There would by no time for a referendum, but a GE can be called quite quickly, and Labour can hardly object, having been asking for one for months. So a GE, high-risk though it is, might be the only… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » What LAB has not factored in is that TMay’s successor will get
Other interesting economic data today are that manufacturing output has increased for the eigth consecutive month. This equals the previous record in 1987 and longer than anything else dating back to 1968 (and probably a lot earlier). As expected overall production output fell because of the North Sea problems - have they… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » At some stage some of the “will Trump survive” bets will be va
Yes but there are alot of levers and methods we could have used such as the below which we simply haven't. Does any other country in europe have our tax credit, housing benefit and NHS systems that do such a great job of encouraging immigration 'below the marginal level' ? What a sorry story it is that Belgium has superior… -
Re: What’s this going to do to the May results? – politicalbetting.com
And in a 1991 BBC Panorama programme we showed how PM John Major had been registered in 1968 at a house in Lambeth which the owner told me he'd never lived at - not even for one night. That qualified him to stand for Lambeth Council, and he duly won a seat. The Mail splash described the story as "BBC Hatchet Job On Major".… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The November WH2020 Democratic debate and another reminder tha
Social care is a lovely policy for those in the London and South East. a. We will ensure no one ever again needs to face catastrophic care costs of more than £100,000 for the care they need in old age, which we will underscore with a lifetime cap on personal contributions to care costs. So down South you are sure to… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Local By-Election Preview: November 24th 2016
We all know that "Black Friday" is just one enormous American-imported marketing gimick. That said, it's very brave of M&S, given its recent dire trading record, to totally ignore it, given that the concept has been embraced however reluctantly by the likes of Selfridges, House of Fraser, John Lewis, Next (sort of), etc,… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Can the Lib Dems avoid addressing the 2015 Mandate question
German house prices are an oddity, in that I think you're right they've been boomless at the least for ages though I suspect their relationship to German investment rates is to say the least complex. Bear in mind too Germany has a stable or falling population, we don't, so there is real long term demand behind some ( I… -
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eon has been accused of being “anti-democratic” by ignoring the result of the independence referendum as she struggled during a live TV debate to reconcile her desire for a rerun with her claim she respects the 2014 result. Opposition party leaders were enthusiastically applauded and cheered by the audience during the BBC…